Laura Olivera-Nieto
@tomatoplant.bsky.social
(she/her) high-energy astrophysicist (the photons, not me), occasional climber, terrible gardener, frog connoisseur
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Kidnapping an asshole is still kidnapping
January 3, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Kidnapping an asshole is still kidnapping
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Check out our new results on the M87* #blackhole w/ @ehtelescope.bsky.social ! We now have 3 frames in a 4yr "movie", including polarisation ⇔ magnetic fields. It's like tracking extreme sunspots just outside a black hole, the brightness and fields flip, yet the shape stays the same bc...gravity!
September 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Check out our new results on the M87* #blackhole w/ @ehtelescope.bsky.social ! We now have 3 frames in a 4yr "movie", including polarisation ⇔ magnetic fields. It's like tracking extreme sunspots just outside a black hole, the brightness and fields flip, yet the shape stays the same bc...gravity!
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It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.
The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.
Heightened Scrutiny, a very good doc about the Supreme Court case that was just ruled on, does an impeccable and infuriating job laying out just how culpable the NYT and Atlantic are for the nation’s transphobia www.avclub.com/sundance-202...
June 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.
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If you're being cited like this by Clarence Thomas to uphold discrimination, you should take a long good look in the mirror and question your choices. Unfortunately, for the Times, this was the intended outcome.
June 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
If you're being cited like this by Clarence Thomas to uphold discrimination, you should take a long good look in the mirror and question your choices. Unfortunately, for the Times, this was the intended outcome.
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There's a lot to unpack in the president's FY26 requested #NASA budget, but the near zeroing of the physics of the cosmos program (from $196M to $1.5M) is especially bleak. If passed, the future of high-energy astrophysics is not in the US. 🔭
May 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
There's a lot to unpack in the president's FY26 requested #NASA budget, but the near zeroing of the physics of the cosmos program (from $196M to $1.5M) is especially bleak. If passed, the future of high-energy astrophysics is not in the US. 🔭
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For my Patreon post this week, I wrote about why TERFs are still complaining about not having friends. www.patreon.com/posts/you-ha...
You have no friends because you're a transphobic asshole | Katelyn Burns
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April 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
For my Patreon post this week, I wrote about why TERFs are still complaining about not having friends. www.patreon.com/posts/you-ha...
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Issuing a press release that claims to have found "an ocean that is teeming with life" should require much stronger evidence than this spectrum. Even if the detection is correct, that doesn't tell you how the molecules formed. 🔭🧪
April 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Issuing a press release that claims to have found "an ocean that is teeming with life" should require much stronger evidence than this spectrum. Even if the detection is correct, that doesn't tell you how the molecules formed. 🔭🧪
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The UK Supreme Court endorsed segregating trans people entirely out of public life. They can exclude trans women from single sex spaces on the basis of sex and then exclude trans men on the basis of gender reassignment. Effectively, it allows the legal exclusion of trans people from public life.
April 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The UK Supreme Court endorsed segregating trans people entirely out of public life. They can exclude trans women from single sex spaces on the basis of sex and then exclude trans men on the basis of gender reassignment. Effectively, it allows the legal exclusion of trans people from public life.
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This is all going to get harder, but they literally cannot legislate you out of existence. When tomorrow arrives, you will still be here, you will still be who you are, and we will all still be here with you.
The U.K. Supreme Court rules that Britain's equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female. The ruling means a transgender person with a certificate that recognizes them as female should not be considered a woman for equality purposes.
UK Supreme Court rules that equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female
The Supreme Court has ruled that the U.K. equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female.
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April 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
This is all going to get harder, but they literally cannot legislate you out of existence. When tomorrow arrives, you will still be here, you will still be who you are, and we will all still be here with you.
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You guys what if it wasn’t a coincidence that they only ever complained about the ‘cancellation’ of climate deniers, misogynists and race-science freaks
March 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
You guys what if it wasn’t a coincidence that they only ever complained about the ‘cancellation’ of climate deniers, misogynists and race-science freaks
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Hier ist das Wahlergebnis umgerechnet auf die gesamte Bevölkerung. Der neue Bundestag wird gewählt von nur 51% der Menschen in Deutschland.
Es gibt mehr Menschen ohne deutschen Pass, die von der Wahl ausgeschlossen werden, als AfD-Wähler. Wen repräsentiert der Bundestag?
Es gibt mehr Menschen ohne deutschen Pass, die von der Wahl ausgeschlossen werden, als AfD-Wähler. Wen repräsentiert der Bundestag?
February 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Hier ist das Wahlergebnis umgerechnet auf die gesamte Bevölkerung. Der neue Bundestag wird gewählt von nur 51% der Menschen in Deutschland.
Es gibt mehr Menschen ohne deutschen Pass, die von der Wahl ausgeschlossen werden, als AfD-Wähler. Wen repräsentiert der Bundestag?
Es gibt mehr Menschen ohne deutschen Pass, die von der Wahl ausgeschlossen werden, als AfD-Wähler. Wen repräsentiert der Bundestag?
Turns out black holes manage to accelerate particles no matter how small their poor donor star is!
Black holes snacking on small stars create particle accelerators that bombard Earth with cosmic rays
"We would like to understand the difference between these systems, which holds the clue to understand just how many cosmic rays are produced in the jets of microquasars."
www.space.com
February 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Turns out black holes manage to accelerate particles no matter how small their poor donor star is!
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The breadth and scope of cowardice amongst our scientific leadership is staggering.
SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...
National Academies is altering pending reports to appease Trump administration, some members say
Words such as “health equity” are being replacing with vaguer terms, and 100 members sent a letter of protest to NASEM leaders.
www.statnews.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The breadth and scope of cowardice amongst our scientific leadership is staggering.
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Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.
2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted.
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
February 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.
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The recent results obtained by the H.E.S.S. experiment in Namibia on the microquasar SS 433 are summarized and explained in this very cool video: youtu.be/gsVb96q-KRw?...
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The paper has just been published in Science: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The paper has just been published in Science: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Microquasar SS 433 - Relativistic jets accelerating particles to extreme energies inside our Galaxy
SS 433 stands out as one of the most intriguing objects within our Milky Way. At its core, a black hole draws material from a closely orbiting companion star...
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January 25, 2024 at 10:32 PM
The recent results obtained by the H.E.S.S. experiment in Namibia on the microquasar SS 433 are summarized and explained in this very cool video: youtu.be/gsVb96q-KRw?...
🧪🔭
The paper has just been published in Science: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🧪🔭
The paper has just been published in Science: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Didn’t make it to round 2 of a fellowship due to “lack of high impact publications” because my first author high impact publication had an editorial delay of 3 months (!) that pushed it beyond the application deadline 👍🏼 love my job really
November 6, 2023 at 10:56 AM
Didn’t make it to round 2 of a fellowship due to “lack of high impact publications” because my first author high impact publication had an editorial delay of 3 months (!) that pushed it beyond the application deadline 👍🏼 love my job really